Convoy news for Friday, March 18, 2022, for DC

[mahatmakanejeeves]

This morning, a trucker with The People’s Convoy on the main stage said: “What’s going to happen up here in DC: Black Lives Matter Street, we’re gonna take it back. All that paint’s coming off that street.” The trucker adds, “it’s gonna get tar and feathered.”

The speaker, who says he's enlisting motorcycles to take DC by storm, continued: “And then we are gonna tar and feather all our delegates.”

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{video of the exhortation}

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"That'll be the day."

Start at 2:22.

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Links to Maryland DOT traffic cameras:

Thu Mar 10, 2022: And they're off. Links to Maryland DOT traffic cameras:

Links to Maryland DOT traffic cameras:

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Maryland Department of Transportation Live Traffic Cameras

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Try this one. I-70 runs through Maryland from north of Hancock to Baltimore. It's the Interstate that the truckers would take were they to head east from Hagerstown toward Frederick, which is on the way to DC. At Frederick, I-270 splits off from I-70. I-70 heads east to Baltimore, and I-270 heads southeast to DC.

Cameras By Route from I-70 at PA Line to I-695 at I-70

I-70 East at South Mountain is a good choice

Cameras By Route from I-270 at I-70 to I-270 at I-495. This is the big enchilada. Any camera on that stretch will work.

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Check the camera at I-70 at Mount Phillip Rd. at the tab labeled "Cameras By Route from I-70 at PA Line to I-695 at I-70." The convoy has made it that far at 11:45 a.m.

[MontanaMama]

2. Hmm. Sounds like a threat to me.

[elleng]

4. Yes it does.

Hope we can send them where they belong, that would be, PRISON.

[spooky3]

3. Hard Workin' Real Americans.

Who is paying for this BS?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. Zachary Petrizzo's tweets from Friday evening

Zachary Petrizzo Retweeted

On Friday morning, the so-called “People’s Convoy” seemed to reveal a new goal for the right-wing trucker movement: Reclaim the two-block-long Black Lives Matter Plaza in downtown Washington, D.C.

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People’s Convoy Reveals Ridiculous New Goal: ‘Take Back’ BLM Plaza
During the right-wing trucker movement’s morning meeting on Friday, one leader pledged to “tar and feather” leaders in D.C.

After two full weeks in the DC metro area, truckers have achieved nothing besides: threatening to run over DC residents, saying they want to deface property, and wasting thousands of gallons of fuel.

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. Truckers with The People's Convoy are back in DC proper but keep getting split up by red lights.

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Truckers with The People’s Convoy are back in DC proper but keep getting split up by red lights.

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Gaetz: "Hold my Trapper Keeper & Axe, girls. Those red lights are for front porches only!"

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. PoPville: "Insult Meet Injury"

POLITICS, TRANSIT, WHAT THE HELEN OF TROY IS THIS

Insult Meet Injury

Prince Of Petworth March 18, 2022 at 2:55pm



Thanks to Kate for sending: “Some of the truckers have made their way to Black Lives Matter Plaza.”

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. Police Blocks Trucker Convoy's Route Into D.C., Tangling Interstate Traffic

MAR 18, 6:43 PM

Police Blocks Trucker Convoy’s Route Into D.C., Tangling Interstate Traffic

Héctor Alejandro Arzate



he “People’s Convoy” makes its way around the I-495 Beltway in early March.

Tyrone Turner / DCist/WAMU

Interstates around D.C. were at nearly a standstill on Friday afternoon, as police responded to a convoy of truckers headed into the District.

The Metropolitan Police Department closed roads throughout the afternoon to try to contain the convoy, which has been headquartered at the Hagerstown Speedway for nearly two weeks and cruising around the District to protest pandemic restrictions. By 4:30 p.m., MPD tweeted that all road closures had been lifted.

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An MPD spokesperson told DCist/WAMU that there are no significant delays anticipated for the rest of the evening.

Throughout the afternoon, transit authorities and commuters across the region were reporting convoy-related delays on I-395, I-695, and I-295. The Virginia Department of Transportation told the Washington Post that delays stretched for a mile into Arlington. At one point, the convoy appeared to splinter into two groups, causing additional delays.

Though police have been blocking highways to keep trucks off District streets, some trucks in the convoy were spotted downtown and near the National Mall.

At least 10 Big Rigs in the People's Convoy are driving downtown near Chinatown/Penn Quarter/Mt. Vernon Triangle.

@DCPoliceDept
appears to be driving near the group.

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The smaller People's Trucker Convoy with 10 or so big rigs just drove past Clyde's in Gallery Place.

For context: The convoy is less than 1 mile away from the White House and about a mile away from Capitol Hill. #TruckersForFreedom2022

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The Truckers are still being heckled by bikers. #TruckersConvoy2022

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